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Thank you Graeme, the Roundhouse cradle seems just the kind of thing I’ll need to knock up.

Andrew wrote: ↑Fri Jan 19, 2024 8:38 am “… F&WHR's Garratt No 87…”

Looks great. I have been to admire them and do the trip. Wonderful. Just think, I might’ve unknowingly bumped into Andrew taking pictures.

Garratt_3492_800.jpg Painting delayed because I keep finding bits I’ve not sorted It’s taken several evenings to arrive at a more practical alternative to my super sophisticated wiring masterplan where, once the central, boiler / cab section has been fitted on to the drive units, I’ve found that th...

I’m well impressed with the fastidiously organised, methodical manner you go about your builds — which always look terrific. A lesson for us all. Well, particularly me.

Wow! Love it.

GTB wrote: ↑Sat Jan 06, 2024 2:58 am “…’Locomotive Panorama Vol.1' by E. S. Cox…”

Thanks for all the info. Immediately ordered my copy!

Thanks for all the generous comments! "Lined black?" It certainly ought to be — but I'm afraid I’ve been toying with an alternative, I'll have to do some tests. '...clacks straddling the boiler top, along with suitable firebox-top pipework..." I’m treading on thin ice here, because (l...

The Cat keeps her enthusiasm under control regarding the arrival of a new addition to the fleet, possibly in view of its dubious authenticity. She’ll be expecting to feature in the video though.

Garratt_3375_800.jpg The whimsical ‘Light Garratt’: still missing leading and trailing axles at both ends It’s progressed a little further. I’ll admit I’d hoped to manage something with more (and more obvious) BR Standard ‘style cues’. And the central, boiler section doesn’t sit above the driving u...

The stone work is terrific — the paint finish is really effective (and I shall have to copy it)

I was just about to comment on yours: terrific, of course. Steves’s done a very nice NG16 too. We all get round to them eventually I believe…

Not even semi-scale BR: the inevitable Garratt At the fantasy, narrower gauge, British Railways there’s going to be an alarmingly freelance, Light Garratt(!) intended, I’m pretending, for those twisty, hilly, secondary routes — in the Highlands, Devon and Cornwall and the like. It’s been on the bac...

Great stuff — more music please!

Beautifully done! At first glance I thought those pictures were the full-size original.

This has been a really interesting read. And the loco looks lovely. Really makes me appreciate the extraordinary scope of 3D design and print. Cutting up plasticard looking increasingly crude and clumsy!

This has been (and is) absolutely fascinating. Beautifully done (and described). I love that wheel!

Here’s its first go outside. This is more-or-less all I shot before it started raining again.
It does look a bit long for the garden’s curves but it will get round, slowly. You just have to be careful.

philipy wrote: ↑Tue Oct 17, 2023 2:00 pm Rural backwater

That’s a remarkable picture, I think. The moss! Lovely.

The cranes (and that new wagon) all look astonishingly good, as we would expect. Terrific!

Beautifully done. Love the detailing, ‘pipework’, motion…

It all looks great, really neat.